Richard J. Roberts

My elementary education was at Christ Church infant school and St. Stephen's junior school. At St. Stephen's, I encountered my first real…

— Richard J. Roberts

The battle over genetically modified crops is rife with business interests and political opportunism. When GMOs were first produced in laboratories around…

— Richard J. Roberts

The strands of the DNA double helix are held together by hydrogen bonding interactions between the complementary base pairs. Heating DNA in…

— Richard J. Roberts

Modern genetic engineering makes producing GMO food products relatively easy. GMOs can improve crop yield and greatly enhance the nutritional value of…

— Richard J. Roberts

Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the…

— Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

— Richard J. Roberts

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I…

— Richard J. Roberts

PubMed Central is vital for researchers and the public alike. Only through free access can everyone find out where the cutting edge…

— Richard J. Roberts

I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with Jack Strominger at Harvard. During…

— Richard J. Roberts

Hard as it is to imagine, there's a move afoot in Congress to take away the public's free online access to tax-funded…

— Richard J. Roberts

From age 16 on, I found school boring and failed A-level Physics at my first attempt. This was necessary for university entrance,…

— Richard J. Roberts

DNA is the master blueprint for life and constitutes the genetic material in all free-living organisms and most viruses. RNA is the…

— Richard J. Roberts

Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by…

— Richard J. Roberts

The way health care is funded in the U.S. is not sustainable. People are being kept alive who are probably better off…

— Richard J. Roberts

During normal cell metabolism, RNA is constantly being made and broken down. The purine and pyrimidine residues are reused by several salvage…

— Richard J. Roberts

One always has to worry when capitalism has a role in health care. If you're just using health care to make money,…

— Richard J. Roberts

A lot of medicines are not there to cure diseases. That's fine - drugs that keep people alive who wouldn't otherwise be…

— Richard J. Roberts

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I…

— Richard J. Roberts

I have been intimately involved in the techniques of genetic modification as a scientist since GMOs were first conceived. In that time,…

— Richard J. Roberts

Nucleic acids are the main information-carrying molecules of the cell, and, by directing the process of protein synthesis, they determine the inherited…

— Richard J. Roberts